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Yemen’s humanitarian crisis can turn into a catastrophe with fighting at the port city of Hudaida

June 16th, 2018

Since early 2015, more than 10,000 people have been killed
Since 2015, some 2 million have been driven from their homes because of the fighting between a Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
Some 22 million people, rely on aid
8.4 million of them are facing famine.
The country has been plagued by the largest cholera epidemic in recorded history, with 1 million suspected cases
Meanwhile, Hudaida is home to about 600,000 people and a port responsible for 70 percent of imports into Yemen
The fighting in and around the port city could ignite a humanitarian catastrophe.

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